Air bearing heat exchanger
Abstract
The various technologies presented herein relate to fabrication and operation of a heat exchanger that is configured to extract heat from an underlying substrate. Heat can be extracted by way of an air gap formed between an impeller and a baseplate. By utilizing a pump to create an initial air gap that is further maintained by rotation of the impeller relative to the baseplate, a spring can be utilized that can apply a force of greater magnitude to the impeller than is used in a conventional approach, thus enabling the weight of the impeller to be negligible with respect to a width of the air gap, thereby conferring the desirable feature of orientation independence with respect to gravity with no performance degradation.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1576279
- Patent Number(s):
- 10422590
- Application Number:
- 15/715,997
- Assignee:
- National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, NM)
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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F - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING F16 - ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS F16C - SHAFTS
F - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING F28 - HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL F28F - DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
- DOE Contract Number:
- NA0003525
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: 2017 Sep 26
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
Citation Formats
Staats, Jr., Wayne Lawrence. Air bearing heat exchanger. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web.
Staats, Jr., Wayne Lawrence. Air bearing heat exchanger. United States.
Staats, Jr., Wayne Lawrence. Tue .
"Air bearing heat exchanger". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1576279.
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